• dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    The penguin at the top, that’s the tarifed penguin 😀 The penguin on the bottom is freeeeeeeee

  • Anas@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 days ago

    I wanted to try dual booting for a bit to try getting used to it before Windows 10 loses support, but last time I tried dual booting I accidentally wiped my drive lol

    I now have an Ubuntu installation on an external SSD. I only chose it because it’s the distro I’m most used to, although that experience is only on servers. Is it good, or is there a better distro to potentially migrate from Windows to at some point?

  • alex [they, il]@jlai.luMEnglish
    261·
    4 days ago

    If you’re used to Windows, I really recommend Linux Mint. I found it pretty easy to install, and once installed you sometimes almost forget you’ve changed your operating system :)

  • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
    151·
    4 days ago

    Do not go to Arch Linux if you are a Windows user though. I made that mistake 2 years ago. It is a Distro for experienced Linux users.

  • technohippie@slrpnk.netEnglish
    13·
    4 days ago

    Everybody seems to hate Windows but then…

    Come on! It’s good, it’s free, without ads nor legal corporate spywares, if you want to resurrect your 10 years old computer it will work, if you want gaming on your super PC it will work too, what else can you ask for?

    If someone needs help to do the change just tell me :)

    • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      There are apparently a lot of people still using Mac OS El Capitan or lower.

      • Mossheart
        4·
        3 days ago

        Macs are crazy expensive and nothing has gotten cheaper in terms of cost of living. Most people will assume that if it keeps working they don’t need to upgrade/replace.

        • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Oh yeah, I don’t disagree. I’m just surprised that there are so many people still rocking the older OS’s. Nicely surprised.

          For what it’s worth, all three of my older Macs are now running Mint, having gone through a few years of Opencore.

      • huppakee@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 days ago

        My MacBook is over 10 years old and doesn’t get updates for years now, still works great. I ditched iPhone because of the high price and will probably not buy another MacBook when this one dies but I am really surprised how long they last. I do not run heavy apps or games so that probably makes a big difference but I can run 100 tabs and watch full hd movie without it slowing down cannot believe it. Also retina display and ssd so even after 10 years, if I were to replace it with a budget or midrange windows laptop tomorrow I don’t think it will feel like an update.

        • Darren@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Yeah, they’re solid. I have a 2014 mini running Linux Mint that I use as my Home Assistant / Plex / Syncthing server. I also have 2011 mini that’s also running Mint that I use at work for giving presentations.

    • Bongles@lemm.ee
      5·
      4 days ago

      How are Linux users handling software that doesn’t exist on Linux. For example I bought the affinity software (photo, designer, etc) and I’d rather not lose that to use gimp or something.

    • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Same as not every American is bad, not every American product is bad. This one is free and open source, so its ok. And its competition to Microsoft.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      19·
      4 days ago

      The point is to stop sending money to the US, not to be religiously anti-american. Using Fedora doesn’t make any oligarch richer. The US trade deficit isn’t made smaller either.

      Plus the fedora community is global.

    • gruhuken@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      Open Source and free products aren’t counted in boycotts because the point of a boycott is to not financially support something

        • gruhuken@slrpnk.netEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

          FOSS still doesn’t contribute to the United States economy and afaik you don’t pay to be a beta tester?

    • Sunshine (she/her)OPMEnglish
      161·
      5 days ago

      That’s true but at least you can review the code and they don’t collect data on you like microsoft does.

      • 20nat@feddit.it
        14·
        4 days ago

        Yes it is miles better then windows, I even used it for a while, but we are in the Buy European sub.

  • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
    21·
    2 days ago

    People should really stop recommending mint. It will only cause people to go back to windows. Zorin is by far the most windows user friendly Linux distro that I have ever used.

    Mint has far too many rough edges to be a serious suggestion for windows users.

  • confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    211·
    5 days ago

    Can we hate on Windows because of what it is, not because it’s a US company that actually claims(ed) to be an Irish company for tax reasons?

    I may be wrong or outdated on the country affiliation, but an everything past windows (arguably XP) deserves hate on its own merit.

  • skitazd@lemm.ee
    141·
    4 days ago

    Which ones are european? I only know about linux mint and openSUSE

  • Rentlar
    8·
    5 days ago

    Aha! So there are the “non-tariff barriers” coming from the penguin island! This giving away an OS for free is so unfair to poor Microsoft and Apple.